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Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
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I'm curious to know if anyone has ever bought a product after seeing it advertised on this site?
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  • plant pauperplant pauper Posts: 6,904
    Or any site? No.
  • Pete.8Pete.8 Posts: 11,340
    I don't get any ads on this site or any other sites I'm pleased to say :)

    Billericay - Essex

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  • JennyJJennyJ Posts: 10,576
    I don't think I've ever bought anything purely on the strength of an advert. Does anyone, on seeing an ad, think "what a good idea I'll buy one of those right away"? Personal recommendations are much more useful.
    Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    JennyJ said:
    I don't think I've ever bought anything purely on the strength of an advert. Does anyone, on seeing an ad, think "what a good idea I'll buy one of those right away"? Personal recommendations are much more useful.
    I bought my first iPod  after seeing an advert., but that was about a million years ago
    Devon.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    No - nor anything out of a newspaper or anyone who posted ads through the letterbox or knocked on the door or stopped me in the street or phoned me
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • ErgatesErgates Posts: 2,953
    Nearly bought a car after seeing it on an advert. Not a ‘marque’ I would normally have looked at, but the shape and size just caught my eye. We didn’t buy one in the end, but did go to the showroom for a look and did consider it. Adverts tend to have the opposite effect on me than intended. Refuse to buy Lenor, because of the ads featuring irrelevant American comedians. Now have had to give up my alternative Persil and Comfort because of Unilever’s stand on sales in Russia. Just hoping I don’t see any Method adverts!
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Problem is … if we let on to the advertising companies that their adverts don’t work, who’s going to subsidise this forum and the magazine and all the other things they help pay for …. Us!?!?!?! 😱

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  • ShepsSheps Posts: 2,236
    Just for clarity, doesn't this forum receive any funding from the BBC, or is it the publishers Immediate Media Co that stands the costs.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    edited July 2023
    It’s a separate entity … Info here 

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immediate_Media_Company

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  • NollieNollie Posts: 7,529
    I know I’m going to regret saying this because they’ll suddenly reappear, but I don’t have an ad blocker, don’t get ads on here and no longer get those constant prompts to accept cookies and data scraping info. Maybe iPad/Safari have done something..

    Like others I’ve never been tempted to buy anything by an ad, even the ones I find clever or amusing. Given the £££s spent on them, there must be enough susceptible folks out there that do. Or perhaps it works on such a deep subconscious level we don’t even know we’ve been influenced by something viewed months or even years ago.
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